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December 15, 2009

SoSH: Top 100 Red Sox Of All-Time

Last June, SoSH began voting on the top 100 players in Red Sox history.

The process went something like this: Members and lurkers nominated players for spots 1-10; the 20 players with the most nominations were put in a poll to determine the 1-10 spots. Anyone that did not make the cut for either the 20 nominations or the 10 voting spots was available to be nominated in the next round. Repeat for 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, etc.

I wouldn't put Papelbon in the top 40---too soon to give him that high a spot. I would certainly put Eckersley above him, for example. I would probably at this point in history put him where Foulke is. But I have my doubts about Pap, so that may affect my view of this.

These kinds of things are so hard to pay any attention to whatsoever.So much personal experience and familiarity comes into play toward the bottom of a list like this.The only things that stick out to me were the somewhat high ranking of Mo Vaughn and the absence of Dave Roberts. Loved Mo to death, but ahead of Lynn, Pesky, Greenwell, and some of the others below him? Oy. And that one burning image of that one instant should put Dave in ahead of some of those others in the last 10 or 15.But that's just my opinion, and therein lies the problem. It's all someone's opinion.